#morale

I honestly can't decide if that's a good or a bad thing.

Takis posed the following in the townhall regarding this topic:

Do you enjoy coming to work every day?
Do you enjoy the people you are working with?
Do you feel that you have a future here?
Does the company value subject matter expertise?
Am I getting paid fairly?

The answer to all of these for me is a resounding NO! What about the rest of you?

To be fair to the people I work with… it’s a small handful of peers that are impossible to work with, a few that aren’t contributing nearly enough, and the VP and up leadership chain that is making work life miserable for everyone

too many of you are stressing over stuff you have no control over. This place is on a death spiral. Thats it. Try to enjoy what you can and absolutely dont go nuts with work. The only way this place changes is when its gone and fully liquidated.

the market it brutal now, so stay on the ship for as long as you can, until your name gets called. while the severance is pathetic, its something and you will be able to collect unemployment.

Since early 2021 we’ve been hit with massive inflation extremely high energy costs and what appears to be greed all around and grift and fraud.
Suffice it to say our money gets less bang for the buck.
Buying breakfast and lunch commuting in needing more and new shoes and clothes is destroying me.
I need a $5-10k raise to survive here in Massachusetts
And this new ft rto is ki-ling me I need one day a week where I do not need to commute in. I need that humanity humane time to get through this.
This is absurd just because Jamie dimon thought he was tough guy back then forcing his workers back in.
I really thought Fidelity was a step above.
Well I could not have been more incorrect.

22 home triage nurses fired today. Still no update on when or what is happening with Optum Rhinebeck. Supervisors get very angry when asked about it, and don't understand why people are looking elsewhere. How long are they going to string us along.

A little or a lot?

Large number of people are not criticizing layoffs. There is very little lament, or for that matter - very little anger...

What I see here is MANY Citi employees just asking whether we can stop anticipating layoffs, whether a meeting means something, and whether this or that area is next.

That's a sad place to be at. I feel defeated.

There was a time when I would've defended this company without thinking twice. After everything that's changed, I don't have that same attachment anymore. The way employees are treated has made me much more careful about how much I give. Now I do my job, collect my paycheck, and keep some of myself for my life outside of work.

I've had bosses I loved and bosses I couldn't stand in my 20-year career, but I never dealt with so many bad ones in such a short stretch. Most of them somehow ended up during my current four years at Synopsys. Not a single positive experience with a manager since I joined.

my department leader is scared of pulse. she sends us pre and post pulse surveys no one is brave enough to fill out. she tries to act like a fun, happy leader. she promotes leaders who overdo social engagements.

everyone knows how fake she is.

14+ years with this company and I don’t recognize the culture I grew a career with.

Great leaders are being squeezed out due to location, being too “disruptive”, and being too much of champion for higher standards from the ground up when the HQ allow bare minimum to be enough. We are left with figure head leaders who have little to no interest in learning about employees under them, the work they do, the hurdles they jump over, and the hurdles they need help with.

Kiss a-s employees are securing jobs and leadership positions who lack innovative thinking but are good at pretending they have it. Senior leadership that can’t define their own KPIs remain in power and shouldn’t be. The business is crumbling because of it.

We cannot build a sustainable future on prestige and shortcuts. By prioritizing executive optics over operational excellence, we are actively eroding our own foundation and it is costing us our competitive edge.

This isn’t the Comcast I know. This isn’t the Comcast I was proud to work for over a decade.

No promotion = enjoy my codegen slop pr's.
Fu-k this sh-t company and it's record profits I give up enjoy me not giving a sh-t anymore

There is absolutely no way that it's the best place to work with RTO. I don't know who is filling out the survey but it has to be bots. And the people putting this on linked in are bootlickers.

With hands on experience dealing with our CHRO, he literally su-ks. I know we live in the time of bootlickers get promoted but damn DH is the d-mbest out of the bunch. Literally self centered, just talks a bunch of nothing and pretending to be all knowing. How the other SVP in HR did not get promoted boggles me and I would say most of the people in HR. Literally acts like he is the reason MF/SF are the reason they are still standing, like my guy you were another cog HRBP.

Anyone else want to vent about our cr-ppy senior leaders?

"We no 1 in this , We're no 1 in that, We are market leaders, We have a broad portfolio"

The fatigue is real

How are y’all doing? What’s the overall morale in your market? My manager said to not worry, I’m not sure I am trusting that.

On the bright side, I am kind of looking forward to getting laid-off. Yes, weird thing to say but I’m taking that as a sign that it would be time to move forward.

Looks like really reached the bottom? Somehow it feels like it's hard to sink any futher.

Are they granting just enough of them to breed discontent and further lower morale?

no one cares about this company. If you do, you’re a cuck.

Although many layoffs occurred, there are still a lot of b-ms around. 1. The guy walking in circles and around the office all day (VP) making over 200k probably close to 300k along with the rest of his crisis management people. What do they do? I think we need to also look into lower salary people that don’t do anything as well. Or if we aren’t going to get rid of the non- workers, atleast increase compensation for those that are completely swamped with work.. important valuable work.

You can keep threatening people, but eventually the threats lose their effect. Once employees stop believing they have anything left to lose, motivation goes with it. My entire team is now completely checked out. Find better managers, Solventum, or you'll lose all of us.

I've been talking to some of the newer hires, and frankly, it's almost disgraceful what they're being paid. My pay is the one thing I have always been satisfied with here, so I feel so bad for them.

As an additional note, talk about pay with your coworkers. Legally they can't stop you, and it can be very eye opening.

All the people I know who are affected are devastated.

Or their job? Or are we all on the hate train by now?

Five meetings in one day and I still have actual work that needs to get done. And once they start, everyone looks bored, including the people who scheduled them. We've lost the plot, folks.

I came here five years ago expecting to build some useful experience and move forward. Instead, I've spent a lot of time doing repetitive work with systems that feel years behind where the industry is headed. The hours are long and the pressure is constant, but there's very little sense that you're building toward something. Raises are abysmal and don't really make up for the rising cost of living. Promotions are limited, and sometimes it feels as though there isn't even a path to develop into something different. Management doesn't exactly make the situation easier. After enough time doing the same tasks, you start worrying about your skills becoming outdated too. That's probably what bothers me most. It's one thing to work hard for a while when you know you're gaining something from it, and it's another thing to feel exhausted and stuck at the same time.

You can have a strong record here and still find yourself on the wrong side of management. It seems far more important to stay in someone's good graces than to actually do good work.

There was a time when I would've defended this place without thinking twice. These days, I keep wondering what happened to the standards we used to have. So many decisions are difficult to understand that it's getting harder to take any pride in the place. I don't know how much longer this can continue.

Vision 2030 was supposed to be the Vision to be the best dsd company is what they said! Well how can we be the BEST when all we do is cut labor, cut service and cut deliveries oh and we can't hire anyone!!! Vision 2030 is Vision to be OUT of dsd. Mark my words. This company has been nothing but going down hill and the Mo--ns we have running this company only care about the shareholders and not the people that work for the company. Sad to see such a great company to work for go to sh-t!!!

Looks like we aren’t a “family” anymore. The dreaded day finally arrived.

Thumbs up if you're feeling confident / satisfied or just positive about your current job/RnRs / work-life balance

Thumbs down if you're worried about losing your job/ reorg / politics / burnout / or just feeling unmotivated.

I wonder if leadership understands the position they’ve put employees in now that we are facing the possibility of being laid off AND cut for being in the bottom 10%. Being laid off means it’s not due to your performance - your role just doesn’t exist anymore. Being let go in the bottom 10% “could” mean you’re a good performer on a high performing team. Just think about that. There are good hardworking people who create value for the company facing TWO possible ways of being unemployed. Really cr-ppy.

Everyone is so on edge lately and it’s honestly becoming exhausting to be around. Every little thing turns into a complaint or a conversation about how bad things are, how they can’t get their work done, how they don’t have what they need, how leadership is doing this or that

And I get it. People are worried. There’s a lot of uncertainty and nobody really knows what’s coming next. But at the same time, we still have jobs to do. It’s getting to the point where people are complaining about not being able to do their jobs while also spending half their time complaining about everything going on.

You can literally feel the anxiety in every meeting. Someone mentions a change or sends an email and suddenly everyone is trying to figure out what it something means

I’m not saying people shouldn’t be concerned, because obviously there are legitimate reasons to be but the constant doom and complaining is getting really old. It’s making an already stressful situation even more miserable

Reminder: the only metric they will listen to is not filling out the survey. We tried tanking the survey with low “My company cares about my well being” scores. Only to be subjected to a year of gaslighting and telling us, it is because we don’t know enough about our benefits, as if we all just forgot about them when RTO hit. Most lower levels of management hate RTO and having to talk about it every team meeting. At some point in the leadership chain they start to care more about their career then their employees wellbeing and simply to refuse to push back against Stankbutt. Maybe once we let them know how checked out this workforce is, they will start to tell the emperor he isn’t wearing clothes.

Awful sales, bad morale.

The tremendous weight of very high paid upper management added to the company in the last year has added so much to expense that the only alternative is to cut a few thousand people who actually do the work. You can count the new SVPs and higher. Mike, Dhyvia, and Takis all a part of adding to the glut. Unfortunate but continuously repeated leadership mistake in some companies. Starts with a justifying rally cry for transformation. Leadership uses it to hire all new and unnecessary, high paid execs. Those execs become significant expense, but have added nothing in the way of revenue improvement or efficiency gains. As usual the middle management and working ranks of the company carry the majority of the execution burden in the company through all of this. The only answer is to cut deep in those ranks along with a few senior execs to get on better labor expense footing. People become demoralized, and the main result is a less productive company that still has all the new top level management to carry. In a normal company, some level of layoff or cut should be expected and predictable yearly based on performance management effectiveness and as a result of business performance cycles. This isn't that. This is mismanagement and shows that we are still paying for past and current poor decisions by people at the helm here. They just don’t think we are smart enough to actually figure that out.

I used to feel good telling people where I worked. Now I find myself avoiding the subject because I'm embarrassed by what this place has become.

The very fact that they are holding a Townhall today is completely tone deaf, but if you are able to listen to it, what a terrible attempt at a cheerleading session this is, it actually makes me sick to my stomach.

I havent had a team meeting or skip level in the last 3 months while being told to work 12 hours a day coz "Business team wants something urgently".
But suddenly I have 3 different meeting invites this week to "Go through the Pulse questions".
Absolutely pathetic people are the so called "leaders". Shame on you. I wish they get axed first. No way im giving anything more than a 1/5 to these a--holes.

At first, people still try to make things work even when the environment is bad, but eventually the constant stress starts taking something out of them. They stop bringing ideas and stop putting in extra effort because they've learned it doesn't make a difference. Before long, getting through the workday becomes the only goal. And that's where we're at now.